A digital card allegedly attributed to NTV circulated widely on X (formerly Twitter)showing projections of the African Union Commission chairperson candidates have been altered. The graphic was shared alongside a post that read:” BREAKING: CONMAN Raila will Lose AUC Chairperson SEAT. It is no LONGER a secret!”

The graphic features the four AUC candidates seemingly with their corresponding ratings in percentages. 

The card was also shared on other X accounts. 

Kenya’s Raila Odinga, Mahmoud Ali Youssou from Djibouti, Anil Kumarsingh Gayan from Mauritius, and Richard James Randriamandrato from Madagascar are the four candidates vying for.

r the African Union Commission’s top seat, with elections expected to take place in February 202Woman Kenya Network conducted a comprehensive investigation and concluded that the projected percentages on the digital card were likely added onto the graphic, as revealed through forensic image analysis on Fotoforensic.

Further investigation, using a reverse image search on Google, led to a post on  NTV’s Facebook page with the original digital card, published on August 7, 2024. The authentic graphic only displayed the names, images, and countries of the AUC candidates. The digital card was also shared across other social media platforms, including NTV’s official X(formerly Twitter) account.

There’s no record of the graphic with percentages on NTV Kenya’s official channels. 

Woman Kenya Network looked into a digital card allegedly attributed to NTV Kenya showing projections of the African Union Commission chairperson candidates and found it to be altered. 

This fact-check was written by Woman Kenya Network fact-checker Trizah Mmwanda and edited by Woman Kenya Project Lead Shadrack Agamira.

This fact-check was produced by Woman Kenya Network, under the African Fact-Checking Incubator program, with support from PesaCheck, Code for Africa’s fact-checking initiative, and the African Fact-Checking Alliance(AFCA).

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